Virtual Migrants - Passenger 8 Live @ International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester 27/10/2010

'PASSENGER 8', a live music, poetry and multimedia performance using material from the project by Virtual Migrants artists Aidan Jolly (music), Kooj Chuhan (VJ), Tracey Zengeni (vocals), and Sai Murai (poetry/spoken word).

Performed as part of:
CLIMATE JUSTICE, SCIENCE AND REFUGEES - Virtual Migrants, RICC and MRSN present DEBATE AND DISCUSSION WITH MULTIMEDIA, FILM, MUSIC AND POETRY
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Virtual Migrants - Passenger 8 Live (part 1) Manchester 2010

Virtual Migrants - Passenger 8 Live (part 2) Manchester 2010

A pearl of wisdom from the writer, artist and founder of Artists in Mind, John Holt.

“Creativity is the immune system of the mind and the source of the mythic.”

This aphorism speaks to me of the power we have as human beings to navigate our experiences of joy, anger, hate, love, trauma through the use of art.

It's been proven to me many times how the act of picking up a pen, paintbrush, dancing, singing, to communicate thoughts that are bubbling in our heads is a healing act.

An act that can help us and others to better understand our world.

And this quote speaks to the fact that our created myths are fundamental to how we live, with creativity and story being core to our very being.

Recorded for the 2016 Huddersfield Literature Festival, Pearls Project:
https://www.huddlitfest.org.uk/the-pearls-project/

To read John's full essay see here:
https://www.academia.edu/8834559/Creativity_as_the_Immune_System_of_the_Mind_and_the_Source_of_the_Mythic

A shortened version of the essay is also available here: http://www.escapeintolife.com/essays/creativity-as-the-immune-system-of-the-mind/

Creativity as the Immune System of the Mind - Pearls Project

poet, writer, artist, designer. 
in a former life worked in advertising – clean for over 18 years.
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Sai MuRai